Just a warning to you Game of Thrones fan out there: the fourth episode of season 7 has leaked online. This is the episode that’s coming up in just a couple of days, on Sunday, August 6. Of course, we had a feeling this might happen, as earlier in the week, hackers made off with more than 1.5TB of data … Continue reading
Reading your Facebook friends’ statuses might typically make your blood boil these days, but at least the translations of foreign language posts are getting better. The social network says that it has retired its old translation system and replaced it with a shiny new neural machine system, which is much better at accounting for things like local slang and context. … Continue reading
A new Google device with codename Dorado appeared this month in the Android Open Source Project Gerrit. This is a place where AOSP code is made public as Google works on Android behind the scenes. This is the same place we first saw mention of quite a few Google-made devices – Nexus, Android Wear, and Pixel devices, too. The code … Continue reading
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I don’t smoke, nor do I advocate filling your lungs with tar and nicotine. But if you must reach for a cigarette, let it be this one. This whimsical lighter is designed to look just like a cigarette, but you can use it to do healthier things like lighting candles, or starting a campfire.
It’s refillable with butane, and designed to fit into most cigarette packs too. I suppose you could fill your entire carton with these, and you won’t have to worry about contracting lung cancer anymore. Just don’t try and take a puff on one unless you want to burn your lips off.
So flick your Bic on over to Brando, where you can grab a literal cigarette lighter for just $15(USD).
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